Saxon Hospital Arnsdorf

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Administration building of the Saxon Hospital Arnsdorf
The institutional church of the Saxon hospital in Arnsdorf, built in reform style
Spacious hospital park
Memorial stone for Lohse-Wächtler

The Saxon Hospital Arnsdorf is the Saxon hospital for psychiatry and neurology in Arnsdorf in the Bautzen district . The Specialized Hospital for Psychiatry and Neurology is an academic teaching hospital which, in this function, belongs to the “Carl Gustav Carus” Medical Faculty of the Technical University of Dresden .

At the time of National Socialism, the psychiatric facility was a stopover for Action T4 ; many patients were brought from there to Pirna-Sonnenstein and killed.

Today, the hospital opened in 1912 property is because of the rarity value of a non-integral reform style under monument protection .

location

The hospital grounds are located on Hufelandstrasse in Arnsdorf. The address for arrival and mail is Hufelandstrasse 15.

history

The facility was opened on April 1, 1912 after four years of construction as the Royal Saxon Sanatorium Arnsdorf ; the first director of the 600-bed facility was Otto Schulze (until 1924). Later the capacity should increase to 1200 places. There were also 18 station buildings and 9 farm buildings on the park-like area.

time of the nationalsocialism

At the time of National Socialism , the staff of the state sanatorium and nursing home in Arnsdorf was involved in the so-called " euthanasia ". During the T4 campaign , more than 2,600 patients were brought from and via Arnsdorf to Pirna to the Pirna-Sonnenstein killing center and killed there.

A memorial stone erected on the property for Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler commemorates the important painter who had to live incapacitated in Arnsdorf because of an “incurable mental illness” and was brought to Sonnenstein to be killed in 1940.

In the meantime, the extensive area also served as a hospital, refugee camp and barracks.

post war period

During the GDR era, Arnsdorf was once again a psychiatric clinic. The documentary film Die Hölle von Ueckermünde - Psychiatrie im Osten by Ernst Klee from 1993 showed the poor condition of various GDR clinics, including Arnsdorf. At times up to 1,800 patients were admitted.

Today the hospital is still in operation. As a Saxon hospital for psychiatry and neurology , the property represents the historical preservation of the former Royal Saxon nursing home in Arnsdorf. The “hospital area as a complex of many individual buildings and structures in a large park” is protected.

A documentary film about the facility was produced in 2014 for the MDR series Der Osten - Discover Where You Live .

Specialized hospital

After the political change, it was restructured into a specialist hospital for psychiatry: the treatment focuses on adult psychiatry , child and adolescent psychiatry , neurology and forensic psychiatry . The specialist hospital affiliated with the “Carl Gustav Carus” medical faculty of the Technical University of Dresden as an academic teaching hospital has a branch specializing in child and adolescent psychiatry with the newly created neurological clinic in the Ermelhaus in Radebeul-Oberlößnitz .

For the Free State of Saxony, the hospital is run by the Saxon State Ministry for Social Affairs and Consumer Protection , which has created four facilities for complete care in the field of psychiatry and neurology in the state: In addition to Arnsdorf, the Saxon Hospitals (SKH) Altscherbitz (in the district of Northern Saxony ) and SKH Großschweidnitz also belong (in the district of Görlitz ) and the Saxon Hospital for Psychiatry and Neurology Rodewisch (in the Vogtland district ).

Preservation description of the entire complex

The property is on Arnsdorf's list of monuments . It describes the “totality of the former Royal Saxon nursing home in Arnsdorf; Hospital area as a complex of many individual buildings and structures in a large park with largely preserved historical routes (including paving), fountains, walls, remains of wooden picket fences, pavilions, wall halls, staircases, war graves for those who fell in World War II, memorial stone for Elfriede Lohse -Wächtler, old trees and avenues; historical ( architectural , social and church history ) as well as artistic and landscape design significance, one of the few completely preserved and unformed architectural examples for medical institutions from the reform period in Saxony, therefore rare. "

"Individual monuments in the aggregate: the buildings A1 – A8, B1 – B10, all C-houses (including the church) as well as the institution's own cemetery with parenting hall, three laundries, three former convertible halls, 10 residential buildings (free-standing: Hufelandstrasse 5, 7, 9, 17, 19, 22 and double houses: Stolpener Strasse 54, 56, 57/59, 58), two villas (Hufelandstrasse 13 and Karswaldstrasse 1), water lift, condensate pump house and water house as well as park “.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Sächsisches Krankenhaus Arnsdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Time travel 100 years of Arnsdorf Hospital. Exhibition catalog, 2012, p. 6?
  2. ↑ Steffen Oeser: The Saxon State Institution in Arnsdorf from 1912 to 1945. From the insane care institution to the National Socialist model institution. Dresden 2005.
  3. ↑ Irre normal - Psychiatrie in Arnsdorf ( Memento from March 6, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ). A film by Anne Mehler.
  4. ↑ porters. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  5. ↑ a b Complete description of the list of monuments to the Saxon Hospital for Psychiatry and Neurology.

Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 36 "  N , 13 ° 59 ′ 46.3"  E